Students selected for honor choir

June 1, 2011

Middle school students from across the state of Kansas will perform in the honor choir for the National Teachers Hall of Fame induction ceremonies on June 17 in Emporia.

The students from schools in Baldwin City, Chanute, Emporia, Hamilton, Overland Park, Lenexa, Larned, Louisburg, Alma, Ottawa, Olathe and Pretty Prairie will travel to the Emporia State University campus with their teachers for group practices before the performance at the induction ceremony, which caps two days of celebration.

The NTHF was established on the Emporia State University campus in 1989. Beginning in 1992, five teachers have been selected each year for induction into the hall. This year’s 20th-anniversary class of teachers are:

Walter Patrick Earle who teaches high school agriculture at McBee High School in McBee, S.C.;

Emporia State University is a dynamic and progressive student-centered learning community that fosters student success through engagement in academic excellence, community and global involvement, and the pursuit of personal and professional fulfillment.